Attachment for hat-pouncing machines



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B. B. TAYLOR. Attachment for Hat Pouncing Machines. No. 232,860. Patented Oct, 5,1880.

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EDMUND B. TAYLOR, OF DEERING, MAINE.

ATTACHMENT FOR HAT-POUNCING MACHINES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 232,860, dated October 5, 18180.

Application filed June 14, 1880.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDMUND B. TAYLOR, of the town of Deering,in the county of Cumberlandand State of Maine, have invented a new and useful Attachment for Hat-Pouncin g Machines, of which the followingisaspecification.

The object of my invention is to provide an attachment to machines for pouncing hats, by means of which the motion of the hat or material to be pounced, when pressed against the face of the revolving pouncin g-cylinder, can be regulated as to speed and direction at the will of the operator.

My invention consists, first, of aishield or cover, which is placed in front of the pouncingcylinder of a pouncing-machine and is firmly attached to the bed or body thereof. This shield or cover serves to prevent the folds of the hat or the parts not being immediately acted upon from being thrown against the revolvin g cutter or pouncing-cylinder, and also provides a support for the second part of my attachment, which is a movable bar with an adjustable spring, by means of which the bar is pressed against the hat or material to be pounced, holding it with more or.less force, as may be desired, and at any part, against the hat-support.

By this device the motion of the hat or material to be pounced, when pulled or dragged over the hat-support by the action of the moving pouncing-cylinder, can be retarded and regulated as to direction by pressure applied to the presser-bar by the hand of ,the operator.

The accompanying drawings show my invention and its several parts in detail.

The same letters represent the same parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 shows the invention as applied to my machine for pouncing hats, such a portion only of that machine being shown as will be sufficient to indicate the manner of attachment and mode of operation of myinvention. Ais the pouncing-cylinder of any hat-pouncing machine; B, the hat-support; D, the arm carrying the hat-support; E, the pulley 5 F F, the boxes, and X the body or frame of said machine. Fig. 2 is a front View of my invention. Fig.3 is an outside endview of the same. Fig. 4: is the same view as Fig. 3, showing its relation to the pouncing-cylinder A, the hat-sup- (N 0 model.)

port B, and the arm D of my pouncing-machine. Fig. 5 is a top view of my invention. Fig. 6 is an end view of the shield or cover with the plate sprin and presser bar removed. Fig. 7 is a front view of the same. Fig. 8 is an inside View of the plate, showing the spring and presserbar. Fig. 10 is an end view of the plate with the spring and presserbar removed. Fig. 11 is the spring. Fig. 12 is a top View of the shield or cover.

The construction of my invention is as follows: A shield or cover, K, of metal, is firmly bolted to the body of the pouncing-machine. It may be made of any shape to suit the pouncingcylinder of the machine to which it is attached. In the drawings it is shown of a shape suitable for my pouncing-machine, and I prefer to make it with a projecting horn, N, as shown, to partly cover the inside end of the cylinder. It is firmly bolted to the box F of the machine, the block shown at L, Fig. 5, being interposed to give it the proper bearing.

Upon the shield or cover K is screwed the plate O,with reversed flanges on its upper edge, the object being to fix it in such manner with reference to the shield K that its lower part will be held at a suitable distance from and parallel to-the shield, so as to allow the presserbar J to move freely between the plate and the shield.

The presser-bar J is made of wood or. other suitable material, and is provided with pins, which move in two vertical slots in the plate 0, as shown, in such manner that it is prevented from having horizontal motion, but moves freely in a vertical direction.

A spring, L, which is adjustable for tension by means of the rod and thumb-nutH,presses upon the upper edge of the presser-bar J, between the slots in the plate 0, as shown in Fig. 8.

I have described the plate(] in order to show the working of my invention; but itis obvious that it is not an essential part of my invention, but is only one of several devices by which the presser-bar J may be made to have a vertical motion upon the shield K, and at the same time be restrained from motion in other directions. For example, pins with fiat heads can be attached to the shield K, which work in two ver tical slots in the presser-bar J. In this case the spring L must be also attached to the shield, and the rod and thumb-nut H pass through lugs or ears upon the shield.

The manner of operating my invention is as follows: The shield K, carrying the presserbar J ,is firmlybolted to the body of the pouncing-machine in such a position that when the hat-support, carrying the hat or material to be pounced, is brought toward ,the revolving pouncing-cylinder the lower edge of the presser-bar J will be brought in contact with the hat or material to be pounced before it is brought in contact with the pouncing-cylinder, so thatitis pressed upon the hat-support with more or less force, as may be desired, the force being regulated by the spring L. The hat or material to be pounced, comingin contact with the rapidly rotating pouncing cylinder, is drawn with great speed over the hat-support B; but being restrained and controlled in such movement by the pressure exerted by the presser-bar J, and thus being compelled to move at a speed much less than that of the pouncing-cylinder, its surface is abraded or pounced by reason of the difference in the rate of motion of the pouncing-cylinder and that of the material operated upon, at the will of the operator. The end of the presser-bar J, which projects beyond the plate 0, can be raised or lowered vertically by the'hand of the operator, so that the presser-bar J can be caused to press upon the hat or material to be pounced with its entire lower edge or any part thereof, at the will of the operator.

By depressing the projecting end of the presser-bar the tip of the hat may be held firmly upon its center, around which it will rotate, so that the entire tip may be pounced at the same operation with the rest of the hat.

My invention can be applied to any machine for pouncing hats in which the hat is not fed to the rotating pouncing-cylinder by means of feed-rolls or a special feeding mechanism.

I claim as my invention-- 1. The shield or cover K, for the purposes substantially as described.

2. The combination of a shield or cover for the ponncing-cylinder of a pouncing-machine with a presserbar, substantially as described.

3. The presser-bar J, substantially as described.

4. In combination with a pouncing-machinc, the shield K, presser-bar J, and adjustable spring, substantially as described.

E. B. TAYLOR.

Witnesses:

CHARLES C. SUYDAM, J. D. BUTTERLY. 

